ALL IN

PROJECT PRESENTATION

“Incredible Practitioners to empower adults with disABILITIES through Education, Employment & Social Entrepreneurship”

General information

“ALL IN! Incredible Practitioners to empower adults with disABILITIES through Education, Employment & Social Entrepreneurship” is a transnational project coordinated by the Federation for Accessibility of Romania (FAR). The project is implemented in partnership with five other organizations in Europe:

Federation for Accessibility of Romania – (FAR Romania);
National Confederation of Disabled People – (NCDP Greece);
Centro Superior de Formacion Europa SUR - (CESUR Spain);
Association of Consultants and Experts in Social Economy (ACE-ES Romania);
European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities - (EASPD Belgium);

The project started on September 1, 2018, has a duration of 24 months and is developed with the support of the European Commission, through the Erasmus + program, Key Action 2 - Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education.

AIM of the project

To stimulate a multidisciplinary & collaborative framework which supports increasing the quality of adult education practitioners work and their initiatives & services in order to be adapted to needs of adults with disabilities in the light of UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities – UNCRPD.
Among many measures, Convention calls for non‐discrimination & inclusion to promote access to training & employment.

Specific objectives

O1 Equiping educators, trainers, HR managers, other experts with proper competences&at least 9 practical resources & tools for innovatively create adult education settings that support disabled adults in progressing towards higher qualifications and in their society & labor market inclusion in 5 countries/at european level.

O2 Empowering bridges between education & training world and work world based on a closer cooperation among adult education providers, enterprises, public authorities, other kind of stakeholders for high quality inclusion of disabled persons.

Target groups addressed

– educators, trainers, training&HR managers, coordinators, vocational counselors, social workers, mentors, other experts to acquire new abilities&attitudes; new creative and inclusive capabilities and practices of transforming adult education and support offers & services according to needs of people with disabilities to improve access, participation and learning outcomes of them.

– NGOs both of&for persons with disabilities; adult education&employment services providers to take a flexible view when developing strategies and models to support inclusion of people with disabilities through education, employment&social entrepreneurship.– policy players, employment agencies, employers, public authorities to actively involve them in creating a strong foundation for relevant disabled adult education strategies in a wider context of market labor.

Methodology

The methodology of the project is based on the participation of all partners, from equal positions, but with punctual interventions, roles and tasks distributed in a concrete way, depending on the specific competences and organizational capacities of the partners.
To create a logical and coherent course in implementation , All In is composed of 3 main "packages". Each of them has participatory actions based on work / learning experience, application and transfer of news in the field between partners.
The activities are grouped into 3 interconnected working groups:

Work package 1

Development of an "ALL IN" virtual resource bank that contains 5 practical resources (OER) based on INTERDISCIPLINARITY.

Work package 2

Development of "READY4LABOR MARKET" (RLM) as a support manual for educators, mentors, vocational counselors.

Work package 3

Creating a human resources tool for people with disabilities using assistive technologies for success and productivity in education and employment. Developing a Manifesto "To help practitioners to achieve inclusive adult education" - as a Document of recommendations on social / educational / occupational policies.

Intellectual outputs

All In! is going to promote 5 complex IOs (intellectual outputs)

Outcome of the whole project – it provides the resources for high quality individualized inclusive learning that could be adapted to people at risk – also to different groups with fewer opportunities other than people with disabilities!

IO1 ”ALL IN”

- a virtual resources bank with 5 practical resources based on INTERDISCIPLINARITY to raise the quality of educators&other practitioners initiatives&services to be highly adapted to specific needs of adults with disabilities.

IO2 ”READY for LABOUR MARKET” (RLM)

- as a support manual for educators, mentors, vocational counselors.

IO3 – a boardgame – READY Boardgamenamed ”READY4Impact”

- as innovative pedagogical online game to be used by educators/mentors in their work with disabled adults for practical learning of starting a social enterprise.

IO4 HR Disability Tool for HR managers

- careers counselor, educators, work mentors, employers etc. as a virtual collection of examples, practices on people with disabilities using assistive technology for success&productivity in education & employment settings.

IO5 – A Manifesto ”Help practitioners to succeed in achieving inclusive adult education”

- KEY message: ”WE could DO MORE for adult education practitioners”)
- as Policy Recommendations Paper.